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My I ask how long ago the CO was ?
I have a sistuation where I had a green card back in 1992, then upgraded to gold in 1994, all **** hit the fan and had ruined my credit, badly. Had AMEX charged off for about 7k I think, it might have been less.
Never any contact, ever.... Not even with collection companies.
Of course life is way different today. Lots of good cards and limits.
I am almost ready to apply once all my existing new accounts hit 1 year, which will be in March 2013.
I am wondering if they will "find" me in the system from 1994 ?
And, what gain, if any will it do for me, I were to pay pack the CO. I have the money now to pay it now a days.
Is AMEX really worth it. Due to erasing my credit file(letting time clean it up), my AAoA is so so so low, can AMEX really help if I were to get an account backed dated over 20 years ?
Thank you for any input...
J
I am helping a family member with a similar situation. I called Amex on his behalf (called 800-700-7619), According to the backdoor numbers thread located on this forum this is the reserves department that handles closed accounts. Spoke with a very nice lady. Gave her the SSN and she pulled it right up. Account was settled for less than owed in the early 1990's. Gave me the exact amount owed ($2k) and told me that after a payment is made I will be in a good position to apply for a new card.
She stated that Amex updates accounts like this one on the 8th of every month. She said my account will reflect the payment 2 days after the 8th. My family member is planning to pay the amount owed at the end of the year. Will keep everyone updated. Hope this helps.
You may find my thread helpful... I had a AMEX CO in 2007 and was able to get back in
UPDATE: I sent AMEX the check for the balance of the CO from 2005, and the check has cleared my bank account. I'm still waiting for the confirmation letter. If I don't get one by early December I will call the backdoor number again and check the status.
I also requested my CR from Teletrack last week which I should receive in the mail shortly. I understand that AMEX sometimes uses this report to calculate their in-house score. I'm going to compare the Teletrack report against the reports I pulled from the 3 CRAs this month and call Teletrack back to correct any mistakes. I read Teletrack doesn't update their reports as frequently as the big 3 CRAs, so baddies may be on there which should be removed.
Once I have some sort of confirmation the CO is in good standing and the Teletrack report looks good/similar to my other CRs, I am going to move forward with apping for an AMEX card. I read in the Optima/Oasis thread that I should wait 3 months, but I think if everything looks good I can app before the end of the year.
On a side note, one of the reports has an INQ from AMEX in 2010 for the Costco card. I would think if I was blacklisted the app wouldn't have been a HP? Or, because this was a co-branded product with Costco it goes through a different review process?
MORE UPDATES: The Teletrack CR was waiting for me in the mail when I got home from work, clean as a whistle. The only thing on it was the AMEX HP for the Costco card I applied for in Dec 2010. Of course I was denied the card at that time because I was still in the process of cleaning up my CR. But I'm wondering if I had been blacklisted for the CO if they would have just SP me and not done the HP. If someone knows let me know.
Wow, today has been insane! So I called the AMEX backdoor number to see the status of my account since I paid the balance of the CO. They said my account had been updated to PIF. I went to lunch, came back and decided to apply for the Green.
And...BAM! Approved for the Green instantly! So I decided to open another browser and try for the AMEX BCE. Went all the way through and got the 7-10 pending verification message. Bummer.
I went back to check the application status, and BAMARAMA!!! BCE APPROVED! HOLY S#!%!!!!! I am on cloud 11 right now! I need to call AMEX to get more info! But I want to thank this forum for guiding me and all the advice, I couldn't have done it without everyone here!!!
WTH Congrats!
Amex BCE..... Best of the best.